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[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (7 children)

Because fuck them, that's why. Nobody, not a single person, is out there trying to make AI that will make the lives of average humans more livable. 100% of it is for corporate profit. Oh yeah, they're gonna replace your job. And then where do you think your income will come from? It won't. Come from anywhere. You'll just be out of a job, no longer able to afford rent or food, but don't worry because for a brief moment, they really maximized shareholder value. In the short term at least. And that's all that matters anymore right?

I don't want to: not only work directly toward that goal, but also do it for free. There isn't much you or I could do to stop this shit short of revolting, but if enough people were to fuck with Captchas, it would absolutely have an impact on the rate at which this tech is ruining our lives.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz -2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You're not doing work for free. That's a really weird way to look at it. You're doing it to gain access to a service, an entirely optional one. It's somewhat believable when people say oh, yes I have a car but I have to have a car, I'd like not to. But nobody is required to use GMail to live.

And yes, feel free to be an AI pessimist. You could quite well be right. It seems bizarre to me however to make an effort to sabotage this one specific AI training (which might stop cars from running us down) so that you can log into something which will also be used to train AI (to sell you shit). And then posting your opinion about it here, where it will be used to train an AI.

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I feel like you think you just came up with something truly groundbreaking, "You criticize society yet you live in society. Curious." You have to believe me when I say you haven't.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 1 points 7 months ago

... I don't see how you can genuinely have understood that to be a point I was making. That's the opposite of what I was saying. I even gave an example of how you might be forced to drive a car. Because you are in fact forced to live in society. But you are here on Lemmy so you must understand that you are not forced to use Gmail? So either you're being disingenuous or you're not actually reading all of what I'm posting. Given how you completely ignored the majority of my other post and went straight to "oH sO iF wE dO iT fOr 20 yEaRs", I'm going with the latter.

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